proc_retry question

[Corinna Vinschen]

Please don't top-post.  Thank you.


On Dec  8 14:48, xmoon 2000 wrote:
> On 8 December 2014 at 14:40, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> > On Dec  8 12:40, xmoon 2000 wrote:
> >> I have set proc_retry = 10.
> >>
> >> I still get the following error message but showing rety 10:
> >>
> >>
> >>       0 [main] sh 35392 fork: child -1 - forked process 35736 died
> >> unexpectedly, retry 10, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11
> >> /q/onlyPastEnd.sh: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
> >>
> >> Does this mean it got an error and cygwin will now retry 10 times?
> >>
> >> OR does it mean it retry-ed 10 and failed?
> >
> > It tried 10 times and failed.
> 
> Are you certain about that?

No.  Sorry, it's the other way around.  If retry is 10, no retry
occured.  AFAICS that's because you get an C000005 status code, which is
STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION.  In case of this error code, Cygwin does
explicitely not retry.


Corinna

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